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Activities: Everyday

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Give learners the tools to communicate through physical actions and hand gestures, as well as verbally, by using this comprehensive set of picture cards that describe everyday activities. Some of these activities include eating,...
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Interactive
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ESL: Communicative Functions-Conversations

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL conversations activity, students use drop down lists to choose correct words for starting sentences, 20 total. Links to audio and additional resources are given.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Person to Person: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Help language learners understand words and cultural concepts. The second installment in a series of three language development lessons designed to accompany Theme 4: Person to Person helps bridge the gap for language learners by...
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Lesson Plan
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Communicative Group Activity: What's Your Opinion?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students participate in a topic discussion in English. They choose a topic from a group of cards and then give their opinion on what was read. The other students have to offer their opinions as well in English.
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Printables
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Safety: Street Safety

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Clearly communicate to your learners how to stay safe while crossing the street and walking alongside traffic using this collection of 24 picture cards. It reviews basic actions like looking left and right before crossing, but also...
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Lesson Plan
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Telephone Skills

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The challenge in telephone conversations is that speakers and listeners cannot rely on body language to communicate. This 31-page packet includes a curriculum guide, lesson plans, assessments, and resource lists designed to help language...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Much Is It? A Shopping Lesson Plan for ESL

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students participate in a role-playing activity in order to practice  conversational English used while shopping. For this practical vocabulary lesson, students practice etiquette as it pertains to grocery shopping. Students pretend they...
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Worksheet
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ESL Conversational Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these English Language conversation and grammar worksheets, students complete the activities on the worksheets to help them learn to write with adjectives and read adjectives.
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Lesson Plan
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Natural Wonder Superlative Activity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the natural wonders of the world. In this natural wonders of the world lesson, students share facts using superlative adjectives. Students recieve fact cards and memorize the information. Students then go to others in...
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Worksheet
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English Lesson Plan on National Grammar Day

For Students 5th - 7th
Aid your English langauge learners with this series of grammar activities. In this National Grammar Day worksheet, learners read a passage about the importance of the day and complete a variety of different activities involving this...
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Worksheet
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World Telecommunications Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Telecommunications Day worksheet, students complete activities such as complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Information Gap 1: Looking for a Job

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this ESL looking for a job worksheet, students work in pairs to ask questions that will elicit information that is missing from their page.  Each page contains ten gaps in job advertisments from a local paper.
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Lesson Plan
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ESL Poetry Unit

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students complete a twelve lesson unit on poetry. They read and respond to different forms of poetry, write a bio poem, complete an online WebQuest, and in small groups present lessons to the class on various types of poems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Job Advertisements

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL reading job advertisements worksheet, students read extracts from job advertisements and fill in the blanks using given words.  Students then match each extract to a sentence.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, identify basic food groups with the help of picture cards. As a group, they create a collage of healthy and unhealthy foods using pictures from magazines and newspapers.
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Lesson Plan
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ESL Class Identity

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students work together to identify and research the country and culture of origin for each member of a group in a new ESL class. They organize the researched information in a poster and present their findings to the class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Lesson about Animals for ESL Students: Use or Abuse?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners discuss animal care using proper phrases of agreement and objection. They role play and make presentations on their animal studies.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

ESL Holiday Lessons: International Museum Day

For Students 6th - 11th
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article on International Museum Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble ...
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Interactive
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Breaking News English: Noise Pollution in the Oceans

For Students 5th - 10th
In this noise pollution in the oceans learning exercise, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer...
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Interactive
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Breaking News English: Star Wars

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Star Wars activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

World Post Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Post Day learning exercise, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey,...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Breaking News English: YouTube

For Students 5th - 10th
In this YouTube worksheet, learners read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Lesson Plan
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Native American Lesson Plan: Someone's in the Kitchen

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use vocabulary necessary to complete cooking activities and tell others about the food. They discuss similarities and differences between Native American and other nationalities' foods made in their families.
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Lesson Plan
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How Do Portraits Communicate?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students read a visual image very much like they would read words in a story. They write about portraits using new portrait vocabulary. They, in groups, use their written analysis to hypothesize about the story of the sitters in the...